In Montreal, the Seattle Kraken pushed their active win streak to five games on Monday when Martin Jones made 21 saves, in a 4-0 win over the Canadiens.
“They can be a dangerous team,” Jones said. “They’ve definitely got a lot of skill up front, and they’re pretty dangerous off the rush, so we just had to play smart, make sure we were keeping guys in front of us, and we did a good job of that today.”
The Kraken scored three times in the opening frame to start the game.
“They can be a dangerous team,” Jones said. “They’ve definitely got a lot of skill up front, and they’re pretty dangerous off the rush, so we just had to play smart, make sure we were keeping guys in front of us, and we did a good job of that today.”
Seattle improved to 23-12-4.
“We had a great start to the game,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “We played a really good first period. You know the way that you want to come out on the road, and we were able to not only build the lead, but we played a really good first period, so that set us up.”
Montreal dropped to 16-22-3, they are 1-7-1 in their last nine.
“After a big win like that, I don’t know, we seemed to take it really easy, thought it might be an easy night,” Montreal captain Nick Suzuki said. “And there are no easy nights in this league, especially with a team like that, a lot of guys playing to prove something, and they’ve been playing really well as of late. We just dug ourselves too big a hole in the first period.”
The Kraken took a 1-0 lead on a marker form Eeli Tolvanen at 6″54 of the first.
“I think for me and [Tolvanen], we find each other,” Seattle’s Vince Dunn said. “You know when I give him the puck, I just tell him to shoot. He’s got a great shot, so he’s making my life look easy.”
Daniel Sprong pushed the lead to 2-0 midway through the period on a power play goal.
Dunn made it 3-0 in the 15th minute of the first.
“I don’t understand why we weren’t ready,” Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. “We didn’t start the game at the right time.”
Matty Beniers added an empty-net goal in the third for the 4-0 final.
“It’s always going to be a grind when you come out of the first period that way,” Hakstol said. “You know there’s going to be a push from the other side, and there was, but we did a good job finishing out, closing out the game.”
Sam Montembeault made 37 saves in the Habs loss.
“We knew what they were about,” Suzuki said. “They’re playing good hockey and they’ve got a fast team, fast players, so we knew what we were facing tonight and just didn’t handle it good.”
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